The Name Index gives the user a broad picture of the many people Carnap knew or with whom he corresponded from all over the world and throughout his life. The aim of this index is to make the Rudolf Carnap Papers more accessible to scholars. To do this we have compiled this list of names from Carnap’s correspondence, notes he made on people or their works, clippings which Carnap saved from magazines and newspapers, and so on. The list is limited to the names of people, i.e., philosophers, publishers, friends, students, and others, showing Carnap’s wide-ranging interests and interactions.

The names are arranged alphabeticaly. Beside each name is a number in parantheses which indicates the number of items the name occurs in the specific file.